Famously, the parasha lays out four languages of Geula (redemption). This is not four different ways to understand the same thing. Rather each verb refers to four distinct stagesRead more...
A young man visited the community this week. He is a candidate for conversion in another city. He grew up in the area and visits EB when he is in town to see his family. He commentedRead more...
Yosef’s revelation to his brothers is arguably the most dramatic moment in the book of Bereisheet. We know it was moving for Yosef to re-introduce himself to hisRead more...
Abe Berman (Avraham Yehoshua ben Yechiel Yaakov, a"h)
Abe Berman was born in the Bronx in 1929 and he found his bride, Sylvia, there too. But after their first child, Joy, was born in the mid-50s, Sylvia announced that NYC was no place to raise a child. They made a circle on the map with a 50-mile radius from the grandparents in the Bronx to scope out the possibilities. The first place they visited was the...Read more...
